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LANSING, Mich - General Motors is struggling to sell its commercial electric vans, and hundreds are now piling up in storage lots on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border.
When GM launched its BrightDrop electric commercial vans in 2021, the company expected revenues to top $10 billion by 2030, and the company invested $800 million to convert its CAMI Assembly plant in Ontario to produce the EVs, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Four years later, GM was forced to shut down the Ontario plant for two weeks this month as it contends with a glut of inventory, with images from the Free Press and Reuters showing hundreds stored in rows at lots in Flint and GM’s Ontario plant.
The factory reopened on Monday as GM offers discounts up to $31,000 off its BrightDrop vans, which cost as much as $20,000 more than competitors at roughly $74,000. Click here to read more.
WASHINGTON D.C. - The Biden administration deliberately buried a final draft version of a study that would have undermined its January 2024 decision to pause approvals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects, according to four Department of Energy (DOE) sources.
Former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and former President Joe Biden announced the LNG freeze in January 2024, stating that it would remain in place until the DOE could conduct a fresh study of the climate and economic impacts of LNG export growth. The Biden DOE finalized a draft of the study in 2023 and subsequently buried it because the initial version’s findings would have contradicted the administration’s rationale for the LNG freeze, according to four sources inside the Trump DOE granted anonymity by the Daily Caller News Foundation to freely discuss a sensitive matter. Click here to read more.
PROVIDENCE, RI - A shocking eminent domain scandal is unfolding in Johnston, Rhode Island: Last week, the Town secretly took possession of a family’s 31-acre property, only notifying the owners afterward in a letter demanding they “remove all vehicles and other personal belongings from the property immediately” or they’d be served with a no trespass notice.
“I was presented with a piece of paper that says I don’t own a piece of property that’s been in my family for generations,” Ralph Santoro, one of the landowners represented by Pacific Legal Foundation, said at a March 19 press conference. “I got to be honest with you, I’m still digesting and processing. I can’t get over that.”
Johnston Mayor Joseph Polisena, Jr. publicly vowed to “use all the power of government that I have” to stop the Santoro-Compagnone family from building an affordable apartment complex on their property. He threatened to take the property by eminent domain, then claimed the Town would build a municipal “safety complex” on the site.
PLF attorney Kady Valois told media this week that the safety complex was merely a “pretext” to take the property. “The mayor came out and said that he didn’t want this project and that he would use eminent domain before he ever said anything about building a municipal complex,” Valois pointed out. “We think that they’re just trying to come up with a reason to actually take the property.” Click here to read more.
WASHINGTON D.C. - The Federal Bureau of Investigation released a bulletin on Friday warning the public about the threats coming from far-Left extremists aimed at Tesla.
The bulletin comes after the attacks on Tesla stores and vehicles were triggered by outrage from the far-Left over the role that Elon Musk has had in helping the Trump administration gut waste, fraud, and abuse out of the federal government.
The FBI said that the attacks on Tesla vehicles, dealerships, storage lots, and charging stations have occurred in at least nine states since January.
“These incidents have involved arson, gunfire, and vandalism, including graffiti expressing grievances against those the perpetrators perceive to be racists, fascists, or political opponents,” the bulletin said. “These criminal actions appear to have been conducted by lone offenders, and all known incidents occurred at night.” Click here to read more.
KANSAS CITY, KS - The state of Missouri is swiftly moving to seize farmland and other assets owned by the Chinese government after emerging victorious in a landmark lawsuit.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey told Just the News that the seizure is part of Missouri’s effort to collect a $24 billion civil judgment against the Chinese government after suing it for the harm caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
During an appearance on “John Solomon Reports,” Bailey said the state “will start to identify and begin going to court to have court orders issued to seize those assets to make good on that judgment.”
The court’s ruling resulted from Missouri’s lawsuit against the People’s Republican of China and other defendants, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The court found that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) concealed the severity of the coronavirus by engaging int “a deliberate campaign to suppress information about the COVID-19 pandemic in order to support its campaign to hoard PPE from Missouri and an unsuspecting world.” Click here to read more.
